Medicine

Our faces are stretching. Taking a step forward takes up all our strength. We cling on to the rock walls to pull ourselves forward. We are at one of the edges of the Indian Ocean at the southern tip of...

When a medical student has time to read, what does she read? Today’s Top Reads comes from Hippo Medical Correspondent Laura Christianson, with books featuring empathy, inspired wisdom, service work, and...

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. There is a good chance that your grandparents were born at home. I am going to go ahead and assume they turned...

The days of doctors making home visits may have come and gone but the personal side of medicine is still with us. Humanism in medicine is a growing trend and it emphasizes maintaining the ability to connect...

Diversity in medicine isn’t just about rural applicants, and it’s not about PhDs, either. It’s about inviting people from all walks of life to participate in providing health care FOR people from all walks of life.

We’re not even close to adequately beefing up the doctor supply—and here’s why.

We are not as alone as we think—microbially speaking. In the past few years, scientists have made enormous strides in the field of microbiome research. In our body, bacterial genes outnumber human genes by...